02 February 2010
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) Human failure, lack of observance of safety guidelines, defunct devices and faulty safety audits seemed to be some of the reasons for the fire at the Indian Oil Corp terminal in Jaipur in October last year, an independent inquiry committee has found out. “The basic or root cause is an absence [...]
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01 February 2010
Feb 1, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Richard Branson, the head of Virgin Atlantic has uncovered a submarine created with the help of fighter jet technology that will allow underwater “flying.” The 59-year-old said on Friday that the model will travel 35,000 feet below the surface of the ocean, according to reports. He said it is going to [...]
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01 February 2010
By Meena Kar Moscow, Feb 1, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The fifth generation fighter plane of Russia, Sukhoi T-50 had been successful in completing its maiden flight this Friday. Russian experts have planned to launch several high profile weapons for revamping their artillery but have not been successful and so the test flight of this fighter plane had [...]
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01 February 2010
Davos, Feb 1 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The Gates Foundation headed by Bill and Melinda Gates announced on Friday, that they are going to pledge a sum of $10 billion over the next decade, to vaccinate the children of the developing world. They are doing this to prevent the deaths of over 8 million children, due to [...]
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01 February 2010
Guwahati, Feb 1 (IANS) A Class 8 girl student of an English medium school in this Assam city Guwahati Monday attempted suicide by jumping from the second floor of the institution, alleging humiliation and punishment by teachers for speaking in Assamese. Teenaged Nabanita Das is now in the intensive care unit of a city hospital with [...]
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26 January 2010
By indiaabroad Sunday Jan 24 11:15 PM London, Jan 24 (IANS) English actress Sienna Miller is hinting she’s ready to start a family with her former fiance actor Jude Law, after reportedly rekindling her romance with him. The couple split in 2006, after a British newspaper exposed Law’s affair with his children’s nanny but the two [...]
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17 January 2010
DETROIT: The world’s cheapest car is being readied for sale in the US, but by the time India’s Tata Nano is retrofitted to meet emissions and Tata Technologies Ltd., the global engineering arm of the Tata group conglomerate, brought the tiny car to Detroit as a publicity stunt for the engineering group. Tata officials, while maintaining that [...]
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17 January 2010
MUMBAI: Ultratech Cement on Saturday said its net profit declined by 17.64 per cent to Rs 196 crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2009, over the same period last year. Net sales rose to Rs 1,652 crore for the third quarter ended December 09, against Rs 1,631 crore in the same quarter previous fiscal, Ultratech Cement [...]
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17 January 2010
NEW DELHI: Kuldip Singh, director, technical, of telecom PSU MTNL, has been appointed the new chairman and managing director with immediate effect. Singh would continue to hold the portfolio of director (technical). Singh has been given the charge for a period of three months. His appointment came after his predecessor R S P Sinha’s tenure ended on January [...]
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17 January 2010
NEW DELHI: Taking a leaf out of its slogan ‘Athithi Devo Bhava’ , the tourism ministry is likely to waive off 50 per cent of the visa fee charged from visitors of Commonwealth nations as an incentive to boost slagging foreign tourist arrivals. This is part of its effort to incentivise tourism to India for the Commonwealth [...]
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